The 2017 AJC Decatur Book Festival will address on the vital role journalism plays in today’s continuously shifting society where the press faces pushback from the current political administration and the threat of fake news. Fittingly, the Atlanta Journal…

Editor’s Disclosure: ArtsATL Executive Editor Laura Relyea has worked with Rebecca Gayle Howell in the past at Oxford American — One could argue we live in the golden age of literary dystopia, with the resurgence in popularity of classics like George…

Writing is a winding journey with twists and turns, ups and downs, periods of creativity and blockage. But most of all, it is personal; it’s an individual act that is different for all writers. Chris Martin, a newly published…

For any food lover — chef, food historian, researcher, critic or writer — there’s a pivotal point, a marker on their mental memory timeline when they can account for their burgeoning appreciation for all things culinary. Maybe it’s an…

We meet at the man’s home, Man’s home, as it is Man Martin’s home where we meet. This is a modest-looking ranch-style house, three bedrooms, with an ample yard that includes a chicken coop and a sprouting garden in…

When Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Harper, 264 pp), was published last summer, no one anticipated its future as a literary juggernaut, nevermind the basis for Ron Howard’s next feature film.

Jorie Graham has always been invested in humanity’s conflict with the natural. From her first work in 1980, Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts, up through her Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for Dream of the Unified Field, through the new…